Turing à la Nikolić: From Thoughtless to Thoughtful

07/11/2015
Turing à la Nikolić: From Thoughtless to Thoughtful

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Episode Synopsis

Alan Turing’s 1950 cult classic, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, (published 1950, Mind 49: 433-460) is divided into seven sections. The sixth section entitled, Contrary Views on the Main Question – “can computers think” – is a whimsical list of nine reasons why people would believe that computers cannot think. But before he conveys the objections of others, he first confesses his own viewpoint, which subsequently has […]

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